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An analysis of COVID-19 article dissemination by Twitter compared to citation rates

  • Researchers interested in studying the dissemination of COVID-19 publications through tweets versus citations
  • Used LitCovid to collect 1328 publications from January 1 to March 18, 2020
  • Used sign tests and negative binomial regression to compare tweet vs. citation rates and quantify the relationship between tweet rate and article topic, author location, and citation count
  • Results showed that COVID-19 publications had significantly more tweets than citations

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Updated 2021-04-01

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Computing Sciences